Combination slide loop



:Nov. 21, 1933. R J HODGE 1,936,057

COMBINATION SLIDE LOOP Filed July 25, 1952 FIG. 1.

FIG. a.

Patented Nov. 21, 1933 UNITED STATES COMBINATION SLIDE LOOP Robert J. Hodge, West Haven, 00:111., assignor to The American Buckle Company, West Haven, Conn, a corporation of Connecticut Application July 25, 1932. Serial No. 624,566

3 Claims.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement on the Self locking slide loop forming the subject of Patent No. 1,741,619, granted December 31, 1929, and the object of the invention is to increase the traction of the swinging member on the suspender or other strap so as greatly to minimize if not effectively prevent slipping of the suspender or strap when in use.

The invention consists in providing the swinging member with a roughened surface, preferably of diagonally arranged corrugations or ridges, so as to engage the suspender or strap and prevent it from slipping or sliding or creeping toward the center when under strain, the effective result 1 of such roughening or corrugating serving to enhance the cramping, gripping or pinching effect of the swinging member on the suspender or strap, as I will proceed now more fully to explain and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a front elevation of oneiorm of combination slide loop. Fig. 2 is a front elevation showing the loop applied in operative position to a portion of a suspender or strap. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the swinging member detached. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the swinging member. Fig. 6 is a section on line 66 of Fig. 4, on a larger scale. Fig. 7 is an elevation showing the invention applied to a button loop such as shown in the aforementioned Patent No. 1,741,619. Fig. 8 is a rear elevation of the cross bar of the loop.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the loop comprises an upper cross bar 1 having below it the inturned ends 2 which are continued as the outwardly bowed members 3 having diverging terminals i to which is slidably afixed the so-called rigid loop structure 5 of Patent No. 1,820,290, granted August 25, 1931.

As shown in Fig. '7, the invention is equally applicable to the loop shown in Patent No. 1,741,619, above mentioned, in which the terminals of the bowed sides are shown as eyes 6, in which is hingedly mounted the swinging button engaging loop '7.

In both forms of the invention the bowed side members converge next to their terminals in order to provide a resilient throat which spreads to permit the passage of the shank of the button so as to engage the part 5 of the form shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 or the part 7, as shown in Fig. 7; the throat contracting after the passage of the shank of the button to oppose accidental disconnection of the loop from the button. 7

The swinging member comprises a cross bar 8, having its ends 9 inturned and these ends terminating in hinging members 10 which engage the portions 2 in such way that said swinging member may turn toward and from theocross bar 1 to permit thev passage between parts 8 and 9 of the suspender end or strap 11 which is loopedabout the cross bar 1 as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and then returned between parts 8 and 9, the draft or strain of the thus-applied suspender end or strap serving to pull the swinging member into substantial parallelism with the body of the loop to thereby cramp, grip or pinch the strap into engagement with the adjacent parts. v In order to increase the tractive force of such engagement and to prevent the suspender end or .strap from slipping towards the center when under strain, the swinging member is provided with any suitable roughening, preferably diagonally arranged corrugations or ridges 12. As will be seen these corrugations extend throughout the bar 8, its ends and the portions 9, so that the corrugations in the parts 9 will lie opposite the 0 cross bar 1 and thereby effect the cramping, gripping or pinching between the said parts 9 and 1, and the corrugation in the bar 8 will come opposite the adjacent portion of the suspender end or strap and add to the effective holding of the parts against slipping.

As shown in Figs. 3 and 8 the portion of the cross bar 1 which comes opposite the ends 9 may be corrugated or ridged at 14, to further increase the effective gripping action on the suspender end or strap.

While the diagonally arranged corrugations are shown spread in opposite directions from the center of the bar 8, it is within my invention to substitute for such diagonal corrugations or ridges any other effective form of roughening which will meet the conditions this invention is designed to prevent, namely the slipping of the suspender end or strap toward the center and to keep'the suspender end or strap lying flat.

It will be understood that the device is slidable lengthwise of the suspender or strap to adjust the efiective length of the suspender or strap, and is held in such adjusted position by the tractive force of strain placed thereupon in use.

While the invention is primarily designed for use in connection with a button loop for engaging suspender ends or straps with a garment, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to such use, and the word strap as used 110 herein is intended to cover any device with which the invention may be used.

Variations in details of construction are permissible within the principle of the invention and the scope of the claims following.

What I claim is:-

1. A combination slide loop, having a swinging member provided with a continuous cross bar having a roughened surface comprising diagonally arranged corrugations extending in opposite directions from a point substantially equidistant from the ends of said cross bar, and a loop having an upper cross bar, the swinging member hingedly mounted on said loop with a roughened portion on its cross bar opposite to the upper cross bar of said loop, and adapted to receive a strap looped through the swinging member around the said upper cross bar and arranged to draw the swinging member and said upper cross bar into strap-engaging contact, the corrugations on the continuous cross bar coacting with the upper cross bar of the loop to prevent the strap from slipping toward the center and keeping it lying flat.

2. A combination slide loop, having a swinging member provided with a continuous cross bar having a roughened surface comprising diagonallyarranged corrugations extending in opposite directions from a point substantially equidistant from the ends of said cross bar, and a loop having an upper cross bar provided with a roughened surface, the swinging member hingedly mounted on the loop with a roughened portion on its cross bar opposite to said upper cross bar, and adapted to receive a strap looped through the swinging member around the said upper cross bar and arranged to draw the swinging member and said upper cross bar into strap-engaging contact, the roughened portions coacting to prevent the strap from slipping toward the center and keeping it lying fiat.

- 3. A combination slide loop, having a swinging member provided with a roughened surface, and a loop having an upper cross bar provided with a roughened. surface, said swinging member and the cross bar on said loop each having continuous portions on which the roughened surfaces are formed as two sets of diagonally arranged corrugations extending in opposite directions from points which are substantially equidistant from axial lines, the swinging member hingedly mounted on the loop with a roughened portion opposite the roughened surface of said cross bar, the two roughened portions coacting to prevent the sliding or creeping of the strap toward the center and keeping it lying fiat.

ROBERT J. HODGE. 

